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Australia: Push for climate change on G20 list

2014-08-10 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: Three former Australians of the Year, including Nobel laureate Peter Doherty, have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott calling for climate change to be included on the agenda for the G20 leaders summit to be held in Brisbane in November. Epidemiologist Fiona Stanley and immunologist Sir Gustav Nossal are among a dozen health experts supporting the call, published in the Medical Journal of Australia. ''Current climate trends, driven by global warming, threaten the basis of future...

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G20 summit: Obama expected discuss 'critical issue' of climate change

2014-06-25 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Barack Obama is expecting to discuss climate change at the G20 summit in Brisbane, with the US ambassador to Australia reinforcing the presidents message that it is a critical issue. In a wide-ranging address to the National Press Club on Wednesday, in which he also spoke about marrying his partner of 17 years thanks to same-sex marriage laws, ambassador John Berry said the US was raising climate change through its sherpas for the November summit. I think we can't lose sight that this is...

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Australia: Julie Bishop confirms climate change won't be high G20 agenda

2014-06-20 05:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: After weeks of speculation, the Federal Government has today confirmed it won't be making climate change a priority during November's G20 summit in Brisbane. The issue dogged Prime Minister Tony Abbott on a recent overseas trip, where he met world leaders, including US president Barack Obama who supports a cap and trade scheme and wants the issue on the G20 agenda. But the Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, says it's not the right forum to discuss climate change. She's made the comments at...

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Climate change 'off G20 agenda'

2014-06-04 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has downplayed the likelihood of climate change being discussed at a G20 leaders' summit hosted by Australia, suggesting it does not fit the meeting's economic focus. Asked about pressure from the US and Europe for climate to be included on the agenda for the November meeting in Brisbane, Mr Abbott said there were other international meetings that were more appropriate for discussing the issue. ''It's also important to ensure that these international meetings don't...

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